Dara McBride

Despite being president of Chautauqua Institution, Michael E. Hill said he experienced the current season almost in the same way Chautauquans did. “It’s been an incredible season for me, personally,” Hill told Chautauquans gathered on

The great outdoors of Chautauqua County will become the stage of Chautauqua Theater Company next season. After wanting to share Shakespeare with the community at large for years, the CTC conservatory will put on free

The first offering of Chautauqua Theater Company’s recent New Play Workshop, Dan Cody’s Yacht, is sailing into an off-Broadway theater next year. Manhattan Theatre Club announced the play from Anthony Giardina, which appeared as a

A female spy from the Revolutionary War, buried by history, whose existence and identity historians debate — that absolutely sounds like the basis of a woman-powered punk musical. At least, that’s what musical theater artists

Reporter’s Note: Each summer, Chautauqua Theater Company opens its stage doors to young actors and theatermakers for a fully funded fellowship. This summer’s conservatory includes 14 actors, four design fellows and one directing fellow. They

Reporter’s Note: Each summer, Chautauqua Theater Company opens its stage doors to young actors and theatermakers for a fully funded fellowship. This summer’s conservatory includes 14 actors, four design fellows and one directing fellow. They

Assumptions don’t help the characters come to a happy end in Romeo & Juliet. But it’s safe to assume this wasn’t the first time artists at Chautauqua Theater Company encountered the work. “I’ve been playing

Despite there not being an actual musical in the current Chautauqua Theater Company season, it’s been a musical summer. By chance, a number of the CTC conservatory actors came to Chautauqua with their instruments or

Shakespeare is getting out of the high school English classroom and back on the stage for area students, thanks to an initiative from Chautauqua Theater Company. “They are meant to be seen and lived through,”

If the young dancers at Chautauqua Regional Youth Ballet missed the professional dance performances at Chautauqua Institution this summer, they had a good reason. “When they are here, they always go to all the ballet

The first time Chautauqua Theater Company conservatory actor Adrianna Mitchell saw a black woman in a Shakespeare play, she was 20. “You know that it happens, but I just hadn’t seen it,” Mitchell said. “So